Senator Dianne Feinstein's career was filled with firsts, including first woman mayor of San Francisco and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.
Good luck finding honest decent people, seems like only the psychotic grifters are interested in politics. All the decent honest people run grassroots orgs it seems and they can’t get the funding to do politics or are interested in helping directly not in fighting dinosaurs on policy
Decent people want to solve problems. They may disagree on what is a problem and they may disagree on the solution but they at least have the intent to solve a problem when they see it. Unfortunately while politics SHOULD be about solving problems these days its primary purpose is playing power games.
It’s why so many fresh Representatives and even Senators start out with big plans and enthusiasm. They see a problem that they want to solve. It’s also why they are mostly ineffective. They arrive on The Hill and quickly realize that solving problems isn’t really what their peers want to do. So their either abandon their plans or start “going along to get along” and get co-opted into the game.
I’d say you hit the nail on the head. I’d love to be more active in politics, this next election I thought about trying to help organize some rallies or just work with the locals on setting up informational events.
Before this year, I didn’t have the time or money to do anything like that. If I didn’t live in the cheapest possible place, I’d still not have the money or time. To make it worse, running against conservative in the Midwest, especially places like Indiana, is a surefire way to just about waste your time.
Good luck finding honest decent people, seems like only the psychotic grifters are interested in politics. All the decent honest people run grassroots orgs it seems and they can’t get the funding to do politics or are interested in helping directly not in fighting dinosaurs on policy
Decent people want to solve problems. They may disagree on what is a problem and they may disagree on the solution but they at least have the intent to solve a problem when they see it. Unfortunately while politics SHOULD be about solving problems these days its primary purpose is playing power games.
It’s why so many fresh Representatives and even Senators start out with big plans and enthusiasm. They see a problem that they want to solve. It’s also why they are mostly ineffective. They arrive on The Hill and quickly realize that solving problems isn’t really what their peers want to do. So their either abandon their plans or start “going along to get along” and get co-opted into the game.
I’d say you hit the nail on the head. I’d love to be more active in politics, this next election I thought about trying to help organize some rallies or just work with the locals on setting up informational events.
Before this year, I didn’t have the time or money to do anything like that. If I didn’t live in the cheapest possible place, I’d still not have the money or time. To make it worse, running against conservative in the Midwest, especially places like Indiana, is a surefire way to just about waste your time.
We should only allow the people who don’t want to be in politics to be in politics lol